Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

• CMLVI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s…actually a cool AF idea/inplementation of Fediverse shit. A practical use as well, as they’d control who was on the instance and would be a sorta pseudo-verification process for any accounts on it’s own.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’s perfect for governments. You can subscribe anywhere, you know it’s legit, and that’s a much better way to do notifications than twitter.

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    • CMLVI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m not entirely well-versed in the implications of what that would allow, but it’s another use-case that would be cool to see!

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔

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  • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The government could control social media on their own instance, sure.

    I think having government accounts come from an official instance would garner more trust in the platform.

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    • thesocavault@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People don’t trust the government all the time, they are a bunch of sneaky buggers you know.

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      • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is healthy attitude but irrelevant to the point

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not… it’s the fediverse. I’m completely fine with them having their own instance, it’s not like they control it by any means. Hell they can be defederated. It’s a lot better than them choosing some random instance.

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    • cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then it should be only for government officials.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Correct. It would only be for government officials, so anyone federated with them would know that they are in fact, validated as the government official.

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  • alilbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the distributed nature of Mastodon keeps government control from being an issue. It would be kind of cool as a space for citizens to ask for assistance or air grievances while giving the politicians an officially owned space for things like announcements.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Totally agree. The issues with “government-controlled social media” are a non-issue in a federated environment.

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don't want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?

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  • electricprism@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What you don’t like pot holes in your roads? XD We can easily host our own server where the database password is already 123456

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